Free Printable US GOVERNMENT PRE-TEST

1.

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOR ELECTING THE PRESIDENT IS BASED ON

a)

HOUSE ELECTIONS

b)

SENATE ELECTIONS

c)

WINNING KEY STATES

d)

POPULAR VOTE

2.

WHICH AMENDMENT FREED THE SLAVES AFTER THE START OF THE CIVIL WAR?

a)

NINETEENTH

b)

SEVENTEENTH

c)

TENTH

d)

THIRTEENTH

3.

A PERSON BURNING THE AMERICAN FLAG WOULD MOST LIKELY CLAIM THE RIGHTS IN THIS AMENDMENT?

a)

FIRST

b)

SEVENTH

c)

NINTH

d)

SECOND

4.

WHICH OF THE TERMS BELOW DESCRIBES THE ACT OF DRAWING ODD DISTRICTS SO THE PARTY IN POWER WILL WIN MORE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS?

a)

GERRYMANDERING

b)

CLOTURE

c)

DISCRIMINATION

d)

REDISTRICTING

5.

WHICH AMENDMENT WOULD THE STATES GET MOST OF THEIR POWERS FROM?

a)

NINTH

b)

TENTH

c)

FIRST

d)

SECOND

6.

THE FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS WOULD ALSO BE KNOWN AS THE _______ .

a)

CONSTITUTION

b)

BILL OF RIGHTS

c)

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

d)

ARTICLES OF CONFEDEARATION

7.

THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT WOULD PROTECT US FROM ____________.

a)

LIBERTY

b)

HATE SPEECH

c)

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT

d)

ILLEGAL SEARCHES

8.

WHAT PROCESS TAKES PLACE EVERY TEN YEARS THAT DETERMINES WHERE POPULATIONS HAVE MOVED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THIS COUNT DETERMINES THE POLITICAL POWER HELD BY EACH STATE.

a)

GERRYMANDERING

b)

RATIFICATION

c)

FILIBUSTERING

d)

CENSUS

9.

WHO WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT IF WE LOST THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT AT THE SAME TIME?

a)

SENATE LEADER

b)

WE WOULD HAVE A NEW ELECTION

c)

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

d)

CHIEF JUSTICE

10.

WHO APPOINTS THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT?

a)

SENATE LEADER

b)

PRESIDENT

c)

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

d)

CHIEF JUSTICE

11.

THIS DOCUMENT EXPLAINED WHY WE WERE BREAKING WITH ENGLAND AND BECOMING A NEW COUNTRY?

a)

CONSTITUTION

b)

BILL OF RIGHTS

c)

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

d)

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

12.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY IS EMBODIED IN THE RIGHT TO VOTE?

a)

LIBERTY

b)

CHECKS AND BALANCES

c)

CONCURRENT

d)

IMPLIED

13.

THE POWERS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ARE CALLED THE ______________ POWERS.

a)

DELEGATED

b)

RESERVED

c)

CONCURRENT

d)

IMPLIED

14.

THE RULEBOOK FOR OUR GOVERNMENT WOULD BE THE ________________.

a)

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

b)

CONSTITUTION

c)

SUPREME COURT

d)

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

15.

WOMEN ACROSS THE USA CELEBRATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE ___ AMDT AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

a)

NINETEENTH

b)

SEVENTEENTH

c)

FIRST

d)

TWENTIETH

16.

THE TWO HOUSE LEGISLATURE THAT PASSES LAWS FOR OUR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IS ___________.

a)

THE SENATE

b)

THE CONGRESS

c)

THE SUPREME COURT

d)

THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

17.

WHO HAS THE POWER TO INTERPRET LAWS?

a)

CONGRESS (LEGISLATIVE)

b)

SUPREME COURT (JUDICIAL)

c)

PRESIDENT (EXECUTIVE)

d)

ONLY STATES

18.

MANY OF THE PRESIDENT’S POWERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE _________________.

a)

SUPREME COURT

b)

VICE PRESIDENT

c)

SENATE

d)

SPEAKER OF HOUSE

19.

WHO WILL MOST LIKELY RATIFY AN AMENDMENT THAT HAS PASSED THE PROPOSAL STAGE?

a)

SUPREME COURT

b)

PRESIDENT

c)

STATE LEGISLATURES

d)

CONGRESS

20.

OUR FORM OF GOVT USES ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES TO WRITE LAWS AND RUN THE GOVT. WE HAVE A ___ .

a)

DEMOCRACY

b)

REPUBLIC

c)

SOCIALIST

d)

FEDERALIST

21.

A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE STATE AND NATIONAL LEVELS SHARE POWER IS CALLED ____________.

a)

REPUBLICANISM

b)

COMMUNISM

c)

UNITARY

d)

FEDERALISM

22.

THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION IS THROUGH ______________.

a)

ELECTIONS

b)

PRESIDENTIAL EDICT

c)

AMENDMENTS

d)

NEW LAWS

23.

“A GOVERNMENT THAT IS STRONG ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU EVERYTHING, IS THEN STRONG ENOUGH TO TAKE EVERYTHING FROM YOU”. THIS QUOTE SPEAKS OF WHICH IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE OF OUR DEMOCRACY?

a)

SEPARATION OF POWERS

b)

LIMITED GOVERNMENT

c)

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

d)

PRESIDENT

24.

CONGRESS HAS TWO HOUSES MAKING IT A ____________ STRUCTURE

a)

ELECTORAL

b)

UNITARY

c)

FEDERAL

d)

BICAMERAL

25.

WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION WOULD YOU FIND THE PURPOSES OF OUR GOVERNMENT?

a)

ARTICLES

b)

LAWS

c)

AMENDMENTS

d)

PREAMBLE

26.

THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION FEARED A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. WHEN THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION FAILED WITH A GOVERNMENT THAT WAS TOO WEAK, THEY CHOSE TO FORM A ____ GOVERNMENT.

a)

UNITARY

b)

FEDERAL

c)

CONFEDERATE

d)

RELIGIOUS

27.

COURTS ARE FOUND IN THIS BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.

a)

EXECUTIVE

b)

LEGISLATIVE

c)

JUDICIAL

d)

CAPITAL

28.

THE CONSTITUTION SETS UP 3 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT TO SPREAD OUT POWER. THIS IS _____________ .

a)

SEPARATION OF POWERS

b)

LEGISLATIVE

c)

JUDICIAL

d)

CAPITAL

29.

PRESIDENTS HEAD UP WHICH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT?

a)

EXECUTIVE

b)

LEGISLATIVE

c)

JUDICIAL

d)

CAPITAL

30.

OUR ECONOMY IS BASED ON THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE NOT GOVT SHOULD OWN BUSINESSES. THIS IS _______

a)

SOCIALISM

b)

CAPITALISM

c)

SAVOIRE FAIRE

d)

TOTALITARIANISM

31.

WHEN ONE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT OVERRULES OR PUSHES BACK AGAINST A DIFFERENT BRANCH.

a)

SEPARATION OF POWERS

b)

CHECKS AND BALANCES

c)

REPUBLICANISM

d)

FEDERALISM

32.

WHOSE IDEAS WERE USED IN THE DECLARAION OF INDEPENDENCE?

a)

GEORGE WASHINGTON

b)

ISAAC NEWTON

c)

JOHN LOCKE

d)

RICHARD BUTKUS

33.

WHICH DOCUMENT CREATED A WEAK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT THAT FAILED?

a)

CONSTITUTION

b)

BILL OF RIGHTS

c)

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

d)

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

US GOVERNMENT PRE-TEST

Total questions: 33

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